Chapter 1106 Opportunities and Choices
At the Greater Mekong Subregion Economic Cooperation Leaders' Meeting, both sides talked about peace and development, and win-win cooperation.
Even scholars, this is the main theme.
The completion of the Mekong River artificial canal project is just one of them. The greater achievement is actually in the cooperation of Mekong River hydropower development and irrigation projects.
The Lancang-Mekong River is an important river in Asia and even the world. It is also the largest international river in Southeast Asia. It flows from north to south through China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Annan. It is called the Lancang River in China and the Mekong River after leaving the country. The total length of the river is 4,880 km, the average runoff over many years is 476.5 billion m, and the basin area is 811,000 square kilometers.
The Mekong River basin area is 64.66 square kilometers, accounting for about 79.8% of the total basin area, and 96.2% of the area is located in Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Annan.
In order to sustainably develop and utilize the resources of the Mekong River, China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand and Cambodia signed the "Mekong River Basin Sustainable Development Cooperation Agreement" and established the Mekong River Commission and the Mekong River Joint Law Enforcement Agency.
After the establishment of the Southern Power Grid, the development of the Mekong River hydropower station was mainly based on the Southern Power Grid.
According to the survey, the Mekong River has abundant hydropower resources, with a hydropower reserve of 58,000MW and an exploitable amount of 32,110MW, of which 13,000MW is distributed in the mainstream and 19,110MW is distributed in the tributaries (including 13,000MW in Laos, 2,200MW in Cambodia, and 2,000MW in Annan).
In recent years, the Mekong River hydropower development projects are mainly distributed in the tributaries, and 26 hydropower stations have been built with an installed capacity of 2,688MW, or 2.688 million kilowatts.
The total installed capacity of the Three Gorges Hydropower Station is 22.5 million kilowatts, which is 8.4 times the total installed capacity of the entire Mekong River hydropower station!
The hydropower stations currently being planned will increase their total installed capacity to 28,600MW in the next 20 years, that is, a total installed capacity of 28.6 million kilowatts, with an annual power generation of 112 billion kilowatt-hours, providing valuable hydropower for Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, and Cambodia.
You know, hydropower is a clean energy, which is enough to make the Mekong River a clean energy corridor.
As for the Huaxia Lancang River, it will also be developed in 14 levels in the Lancang River mainstream in the next 20 years, with a total installed capacity of 22.59 million kilowatts, and a total installed capacity of 2.6 million kilowatts in the Lancang River tributaries, with a total installed capacity of 23.48 million kilowatts and an annual power generation of 116.5 billion kilowatt-hours.
In order to better develop the Lancang-Mekong River, the Huaxia Electric Power Investment Group Corporation has specially established a "Huaxia Lancang-Mekong Hydropower Development Group", which specializes in the development and construction of hydropower stations, and then connects electricity to the Southern Power Grid.
In addition to hydropower stations, there are naturally water diversion irrigation and drinking water!
To this end, the Huaxia Lancang-Mekong Hydropower Development Group will invest 300 billion yuan to develop Lancang-Mekong hydropower and water resources.
The Mekong River alone will invest 300 billion yuan!
In the next 20 years, Huaxia will invest an estimated 500 billion yuan in infrastructure and other related aspects in the Greater Mekong Subregion. Even if the 300 billion yuan for Lancang hydropower development and water resources development is deducted, it will reach 200 billion yuan, an average annual investment of 10 billion yuan for 20 years!
Then it will drive investment, which is expected to reach 2 trillion yuan!
With the printing of a large number of RMB, there is an urgent need for capital to go overseas, and Nanyang is undoubtedly the most important direction.
Originally, the RMB would depreciate appropriately, but with the United States adopting quantitative easing and large-scale bond issuance, the RMB not only cannot depreciate, but is still appreciating. This has to make the decision to issue more currency, and at the same time guide capital to the development of the central and western regions, the revitalization of the old industrial base in the northeast, and the development of Nanyang in terms of macroeconomic policies!
The reason why so many entrepreneurs were attracted this time was that a good signal had been released before.
There are three driving forces for China's economic development, namely investment, consumption and net exports.
What the government is doing now is to increase government investment and stimulate consumption to expand the market!
That night, Liu Tao met with Chen Liang, the head of Annan. Chen Liang is 65 years old this year. This is the first time they met.
Liu Tao invited Chen Liang to have dinner together. Their dinner was steak.
The meal was still very pleasant, but when it came to the closed-door meeting, it was not pleasant at all!
Because the first condition Liu Tao proposed was to lease Cam Ranh Bay in Annan!
Cam Ranh Bay is located in Annan, about 600 kilometers away from NSQD. The port has a narrow entrance, a dangerous terrain, and is easy to defend. It is one of the best natural deep-water ports in the world. It has an important strategic position as it controls the strategic channels of the Pacific and Indian Oceans and is known as the first military port in Asia.
The port is formed by two peninsulas, Chongkong Mountain and Fenghuang Mountain, forming two inner and outer bays in a gourd shape. The outer port is Pingba, with a water depth of less than 30 meters, a width of 3,000 to 4,000 meters at the bay mouth, and a water depth of more than 30 meters outside the mouth. The inner port, Jinlan, covers an area of 60 square kilometers, with a water depth of 1 to 16 meters, a width of only 1,300 meters at the bay mouth, and a length of 20 kilometers and a width of 6 kilometers. The entire Jinlan Bay can berth aircraft carriers and hundreds of ships, and has an important strategic position.
The main port and base are located in Bawei on the west bank of the inner harbor. The air force base is on the Cam Ranh Peninsula. There is a communication center at Cam Ranh Cape at the southern end of the peninsula.
Located on an important waterway connecting the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, it has extremely important strategic value. At the same time, Cam Ranh Bay is close to the South China Sea, which is also one of its strategic values.
Since the Soviet Union leased Cam Ranh Bay, the two sides signed a 25-year lease. Since then, the Soviet Union has deployed naval supply facilities and electronic eavesdropping equipment in Cam Ranh Bay. In this way, Cam Ranh Bay has become a springboard for the Soviet Union to promote hegemony in Southeast Asia. Its outpost in the Western Pacific extends 2,000 nautical miles southward from Vladivostok, advancing to the South China Sea and the Gulf of Thailand, and approaching the Strait of Malacca, a channel between the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean.
The expansion of the Soviet Union in Southeast Asia and its advancement to the Gulf in Afghanistan are in sync. The Soviet Union has connected its western line (Europe) with the eastern line (Asia-Pacific) and the southern line (Middle East, Gulf), thus taking an extremely important step in completing its global strategic deployment.
It took more than a decade for the Soviet Union to build its largest overseas military base in Cam Ranh Bay, with a total area of 100 square kilometers. The Soviet Navy Pacific Fleet squadron is stationed in Cam Ranh Bay, usually maintaining 20 to 30 warships, and deploying marines, as well as a squadron of 16 Tu-16 bombers and a squadron of 14 "Flogger" MiG-23 fighters. At most, the garrison reached 7,000 people.
In September 2000, Russia purchased 85% of Vietnam's $11 billion debt to Russia, hoping to use this as a condition for Annan to agree to renew the lease of Cam Ranh Bay. However, Annan invited Russia to pay $400 million in rent for Cam Ranh Bay every year, and last year Russia decided not to extend the treaty with Annan and withdraw the last batch of troops in May this year.
At this time, the Americans set their sights on Cam Ranh Bay. As for the $400 million annual rent for Cam Ranh Bay, the Americans are happy to pay it!
